Microsoft (MSFT) continued losses for seven straight sessions as the stock closed 1.9% lower at $497.1 on Thursday.
The tech giant lost nearly 6.35% in the last six trading sessions. MSFT is down nearly 5% over the past one month. The stock closed 1.39% lower, at $507.16 on Wednesday.
As per the Seeking Alpha’s Quant Ratings, MSFT has a Hold rating with a score of 3.46 out of 5. The company received A+ for profitability and B- for revisions, but a D- grade in valuation and C- in growth dragged down the rating.
However, Seeking Alpha analysts are bullish and rated MSFT as Buy.
Seeking Alpha analyst Weebler Finance also rated MSFT as Buy, saying that MSFT’s Q1 FY26 results showed strong revenue growth, operational efficiency, and margin expansion despite heavy AI infrastructure spending.
“The renewed OpenAI partnership guarantees substantial Azure cloud revenue while positioning Microsoft as a critical AI infrastructure provider,” added Weebler Finance.
Turning to the Wall Street community, 57 out of 57 analysts gave MSFT a Buy and above rating, and no one recommended Hold or below.
The head of Microsoft (MSFT) Artificial Intelligence, Mustafa Suleyman, announced the tech giant has created a Superintelligence team as it looks to a new AI-centric future.
“At Microsoft AI, we’re working towards Humanist Superintelligence: incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity more generally,” Suleyman wrote in a blog post.
MSFT’s shares have gained 19.5% so far this year, outperforming the broader benchmark index, which gained a 15.5% gain during the same period.